On Thursday 01 March 2012 01:06:58 Will Khan wrote:

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When I look at u-boot.lds (in the main directory), it shows the

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incorrect path to start.o. u-boot.lds is generated through the make

all process.

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When I manually fix the start.o pathname in u-boot.lds, everything

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builds fine. My question is where and how is u-boot.lds generated?

I

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see where there is also a u-boot.lds in arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc83xx/,

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with an explicit path to start.o, but this file seems to not do

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anything (I can modify the file or delete this specific u-boot.lds,

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and nothing happens -a new one is not created).

the top level u-boot.lds lacks a depend on the files that create it

(known bug). so you manually have to `rm` it in order for a new one

to be generated.

most likely the cpu subdir u-boot.lds is what is broken & needs fixing.

-mike

One of my issues is that when I remove it and a new one is created, it is always created with the wrong path for start.o. As well, when I make changes to the cpu subdir one, it doesn't affect anything. In fact, I can delete it and a new one is not created, nor is there any complaint. If anything else comes to your mind in terms of where to look, please let me know...

Will